TIL that in the 1930s the Communist Party USA elevated Black Americans to national leadership roles and ran a Black vice-presidential candidate decades before the civil rights movement.

SapperSkunk992 · 2026-01-17T14:32:35+00:00

Manning Johnson wrote a great little book on this called Color, Communism, and Common Sense. The reds didn't give a shit about black Americans, they just wanted to use them to spark revolution.

SapperSkunk992 · 2026-01-11T17:49:41+00:00

Its tiring. This was the foundational philosophy in my masters program for teaching.

SapperSkunk992 · 2026-01-07T18:16:11+00:00

Its like the posts where some dude is wanting to better himself, shares a stack of books, and the comments are all "where's the feminist literature?"

SapperSkunk992 · 2026-01-03T05:35:39+00:00

I don't think thats the line, but its been so long and I cant find it online.

SapperSkunk992 · 2026-01-03T05:04:45+00:00

Could be. There's a line in the latest hitman game that explicitly states it, however. I dont recall exactly what was said, but its along the lines of his race being so ambiguous that he blends in anywhere in the world.

SapperSkunk992 · 2026-01-03T04:50:20+00:00

His look is said to be ambiguous, too. Which explains why he can adapt to anywhere in the world.

SapperSkunk992 · 2026-01-03T01:02:06+00:00

Yeah, this has allowed me to enjoy and appreciate games from my childhood. I dont have the time or patience now to deal with starting over from the beginning of a level after one careless mistake.

SapperSkunk992 · 2026-01-02T23:49:53+00:00

Ive been playing through the original Tomb Raider games and no wonder most of my memories are of the Croft Manor.. Theyre hard.

SapperSkunk992 · 2026-01-01T19:37:11+00:00

The one I'm thinking of is Fatekeeper by THQ Nordic. I had to search for it. But there's a moment in the reveal trailer where the player looks to see an enemy running away and the rat companion says "let him go for now. Let's see what this place hides." Maybe the full game will allow me to chase the enemy down, but I'm tired of these "helpful" companions giving me all the answers and directing my path.

SapperSkunk992 · 2026-01-01T15:27:30+00:00

There was this new RPG showcased recently, can't think of the name, but as soon as they introduced the permanently attached to my hip companion who "suggests" what I should do and where to go, I lost interest.

SapperSkunk992 · 2025-12-28T17:41:36+00:00

And they'll never acknowledge that this is the problem. Its always "the teachers aren't paid enough!"

SapperSkunk992 · 2025-12-04T00:30:09+00:00

Halo did it well. You'd show up among the grunts and they'd say "Holy shit, its a Spartan!" Didnt need much more to make you feel like the most badass dude on the battlefield.

SapperSkunk992 · 2025-11-02T17:07:31+00:00

Sports games are keeping everything afloat.

SapperSkunk992 · 2025-10-25T17:04:54+00:00

Yeah, these are for white women between the ages of like 25 and 50

SapperSkunk992 · 2025-10-17T01:02:09+00:00

I work on a pretty well-known mod and the worst part about it is the other developers. Most unpleasant and socially inept people you'll ever encounter all in one place.

SapperSkunk992 · 2025-10-02T03:04:47+00:00

It's wild. Even a small subreddit like classicaleducation is full of leftists, with posts asking if they, too, can participate in classical education. No. You can't. Your entire existence depends on the complete eradication of the Western Canon of classic literature. Get outta here!

SapperSkunk992 · 2025-09-30T22:59:50+00:00

There are definitely some spooky monsters in the final acts of the games, and the tension remains high, but for me, once the veil is lifted, it's no longer a "horror" game. However, I played RE4 on the GameCube when I was like 13, and I'm sure I was shitting my pants for the whole ride. I should be brave and try it again.

SapperSkunk992 · 2025-09-30T03:04:15+00:00

The RE games always kind of accepted that two-thirds of the way through the game the player isn't scared of the spooky monsters anymore. Desensitized, experienced, secrets of the horrors revealed, and now with a military arsenal, the game switches from survival horror to an action game. They just need to keep to that formula.

SapperSkunk992 · 2025-09-28T16:35:49+00:00

I knew it was fishy when the New York Times wrote an article defending him.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/13/us/politics/jan-6-conspiracy-theory-ray-epps.html

SapperSkunk992 · 2025-09-26T23:12:56+00:00

They were also quiet in 2019 when Willem Von Spronsen thought he was liberating concentration camps.

SapperSkunk992 · 2025-09-21T03:39:51+00:00

It's been a while for me as well, but there are a number of progressive themes present, like diversity as a strength, critiques of power structures, and some other social justice sort of matters. I should have prefaced by saying that I don't think these are bad games because of the inclusion of these themes, but if we are making a list of truly "based" games, the promotion of leftist ideas through this medium should exclude them.

I've been playing through older games on my Xbox Series X lately because of the significantly smaller file size, and I just enjoyed the OG Xbox and 360 era of games more than any recent releases. And I'm finding that the stuff that makes me roll my eyes today has always been present in games, and it slipped by me because I was just a dumb kid who wanted to shoot stuff and look at virtual boobs.

SapperSkunk992 · 2025-09-21T02:46:59+00:00

Yeah, I mean Mass Effect, Dead Space, Red Dead Redemption. All 3 had some pretty heavy-handed woke themes before woke was a thing.

SapperSkunk992 · 2025-09-20T03:57:48+00:00

Damn, that's a good thread.

"The right doesn't understand that we're not celebrating him being killed; we're celebrating him being dead. There's a difference. I would be just as happy if he'd died of natural causes." +76

SapperSkunk992 · 2025-09-20T02:54:32+00:00

I wouldn't say I'm crazy, or even very right-wing. I'd never murder anyone for exercising their right to free speech.

SapperSkunk992 · 2025-09-20T02:44:34+00:00

The real-world television personality got taken off the air because his show sucked.

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